Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A New Strategy for Autobiographical Narratives : Chen Hengzhe's Writing of Aurality -- Fragmented Subjectivities : A Reconsideration of Women's Literary Mirrors -- Nationalism and the Gestural System of Self-Expression -- Names and Destiny : Hu Shi's and Lu Xun's Self-Nomination through Autobiography -- A Moral Landscape : Reading Shen Congwen's Autobiography and Travelogues -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.